A semi-interesting little anecdote: The other day, when I was in town doing some shopping with my mom, I checked the book section in K-Mart and saw some of these things (http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_Books) sitting on the shelf. First time I'd ever seen them, or even knew of their existence. My initial reaction was "Why the hell would anyone pay $8 a pop for a book about how to play Minecraft when they can just look any of that shit up on the wiki for free? Does Mojang really need the money so much that they're willing to essentially scam little kids (or the Internet-illiterate parents of little kids) out of money like this?" I really never expected Mojang would go the route of releasing a lame "strategy guide" (and not just one, but a whole series of them, for $8 a piece) for their game like so many of the AAA-games out there.
Well... fast forward to now... it's not so surprising in retrospect. Maybe they did "need" the money so much, after all.
Anyway, I now think, as you do, that pretty much all of the recent news to come out about Mojang (their sudden interest in enforcing the EULA, the, at the time, seemingly petty and buttmad attitude of the bukkit guys about it [and I wonder if those guys knew this MS deal was in the works all along, which could be part of the reason why they were reacting as they were in the first place]) was all just a prelude to this news about them being bought by Microsoft.
Essentially, if I wasn't already mostly done with Minecraft anyway even before all of this, I certainly would be now. I'll just say the same thing that I said when BioWare got bought by EA (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/160419.html): "This won't end well, mark my words."
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Date: 2014-09-11 02:43 pm (UTC)Well... fast forward to now... it's not so surprising in retrospect. Maybe they did "need" the money so much, after all.
Anyway, I now think, as you do, that pretty much all of the recent news to come out about Mojang (their sudden interest in enforcing the EULA, the, at the time, seemingly petty and buttmad attitude of the bukkit guys about it [and I wonder if those guys knew this MS deal was in the works all along, which could be part of the reason why they were reacting as they were in the first place]) was all just a prelude to this news about them being bought by Microsoft.
Essentially, if I wasn't already mostly done with Minecraft anyway even before all of this, I certainly would be now. I'll just say the same thing that I said when BioWare got bought by EA (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/160419.html): "This won't end well, mark my words."